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Book IL DONO DI NICHOLAS

Download or read book IL DONO DI NICHOLAS written by Reg Green and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Questa è una storia di compostezza, dignità e di come una famiglia abbia trasformato una tragedia senza senso in un gesto che enfatizza il lato positivo della vita.” - Robert Kiener, Reader’s Digest “Non riesco a pensare a nessun altro libro che superi Il Dono di Nicholas nell’aprire in tutto il mondo i cuori e nel cambiare l’atteggiamento verso il bene comune.” - Bud Gardner, Editore, Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul “In questo libro scritto dal padre del bambino, la famiglia Green condivide la sua meraviglia e gratitudine dinanzi all’effusione di emozioni scaturite dal cosiddetto ‘Effetto Nicholas’. Non possiamo fare a meno di sentirci sopraffatti sia dalla tragedia sia dalla suprema compostezza della storia.” - Family Life Magazine “La storia di Nicholas mostra il volto umano della donazione degli organi.... Altamente raccomandato.” - Library Journal “Nessuno al mondo ha fatto di più per accrescere la consapevolezza del pubblico sulla donazione degli organi.” - Howard Nathan, Presidente ed Amministratore Delegato di The Gift of Life Donor Program “Una storia che ha legato una nazione intera al cordoglio di una famiglia.” - Il Messaggero WWW.NICHOLASGREEN.ORG [Please insert photo of Reg Green – as used on back cover of “The Nicholas Effect”] Reg Green è il padre di Nicholas Green, il bambino Americano di sette anni che fu ucciso in una tentata rapita durante una vacanza in Italia con la famiglia. La storia catturò l’attenzione del mondo intero quando Reg e sua moglie Maggie donarono gli organi e le cornee di Nicholas a sette Italiani molto malati, quattro dei quali adolescenti. I Green vivono a La Cañada, in California, con i loro tre figli, Eleanor ed i gemelli Laura e Martin.

Book Il Dono Che Guarisce

Download or read book Il Dono Che Guarisce written by Reg Green and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il Dono che Guarisce pubblicato congiuntamente dallo United Network for Organ Sharing (www.unos.org) e dalla Nicholas Green Foundation (www.nicholasgreen.org). E stato scritto da Reg Green, il pap di Nicholas, il bambino Californiano che fu ucciso durante una tentata rapina mentre era in vacanza con la famiglia in Italia. La storia cattur lattenzione del mondo intero quando Reg e sua moglie Maggie donarono gli organi e le cornee del figlio a sette Italiani. Lo United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) lorganizzazione no-profit che gestisce il sistema della donazione degli organi negli Stati Uniti e che focalizzata nel far crescere la donazione degli organi attraverso la tecnologia, leducazione e la ricerca. ---------------------------------------- Le storie di questo libro parlano della vita che emerge dalla morte. Un ufficiale di polizia, dato per spacciato sotto una scarica di proiettili, pu di nuovo giocare a golf e pescare; una donna i cui polmoni erano cos malridotti da dover dipendere dallossigeno, ha scalato 1500 metri fino alla sommit del famoso Half Dome in California portandosi dietro uno zaino di 11 chili; un uomo che stava lottando per la vita diventato campione Olimpico. Da un lato, queste storie raccontano di trapianti di organi e tessuti umani che hanno salvato delle vite e, dallaltro, parlano dellaltruismo, che fonte di ispirazione, delle famiglie che li hanno donati nel momento pi buio della loro vita. ----------------------------------------- Andrea Scarabelli, laureato in Economia e Commercio presso l'Universit 'La Sapienza' di Roma, era uno studente di 21 anni quando Nicholas Green fu ucciso. Come milioni di altre persone, rimase profondamentecolpito dalla tragedia, quindiispirato dalla decisione dei Green. Da allora diventato un amico intimo della famiglia ed ha lavorato a molti progetti insieme a loro, incluse traduzioni - per giornali, siti web, Televisioni nazionali, per accrescere la consapevolezza della scarsit degli organi donati.

Book  Por le soie amist

Download or read book Por le soie amist written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are a tribute to one of North America’s most distinguished scholars of Old French literature, Norris J. Lacy. Dealing with a wide range of medieval works, they reflect the honorand’s own scholarly interests in medieval narrative and its reception in later periods. Together, the contributions are witness not only to the esteem in which Norris Lacy is held by the profession but also to the collegial spirit of the international community of medievalists.

Book Who s who in Italy

Download or read book Who s who in Italy written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Migration  Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean

Download or read book Migration Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean written by James Clackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses epigraphic and linguistic evidence to track movements of people around the ancient Mediterranean.

Book Pagan Virtue in a Christian World

Download or read book Pagan Virtue in a Christian World written by Anthony F. D’Elia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reconstructs the classical image of himself that Sigismondo Malatesta projected in fifteenth-century Italy."--Page [1].

Book Gift

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gianfranco Maraniello
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Gift written by Gianfranco Maraniello and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Gianfranco Maraniello, Sergio Risaliti, and Antonio Somaini. Essays by Jean Baudrillard, Dan Cameron, Jean-Luc Nancy, Harald Szeemann.

Book Forgotten Healers

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  • Author : Sharon T. Strocchia
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2019-12-17
  • ISBN : 0674241746
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Healers written by Sharon T. Strocchia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance. In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life—from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries—drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls’ shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine. Sharon Strocchia offers a wealth of new evidence about how illness was diagnosed and treated, whether by noblewomen living at court or poor nurses living in hospitals. She finds that women expanded on their roles as health care providers by participating in empirical work and the development of scientific knowledge. Nuns, in particular, were among the most prominent manufacturers and vendors of pharmaceutical products. Their experiments with materials and techniques added greatly to the era’s understanding of medical care. Thanks to their excellence in medicine urban Italian women had greater access to commerce than perhaps any other women in Europe. Forgotten Healers provides a more accurate picture of the pursuit of health in Renaissance Italy. More broadly, by emphasizing that the frontlines of medical care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Strocchia encourages us to rethink the history of medicine.

Book The Italian Traditions   Puccini

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  • Author : Nicholas Baragwanath
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2011-07-08
  • ISBN : 0253001668
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book The Italian Traditions Puccini written by Nicholas Baragwanath and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A major contribution . . . not only to Puccini studies but also to the study of nineteenth-century Italian opera in general.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th Century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking account of some 400 primary sources, Baragwanath explains the varying theories and practices of the period in light of current theoretical and analytical conceptions of this music. The Italian Traditions and Puccini offers a guide to an informed interpretation and appreciation of Italian opera by underscoring the proximity of archaic traditions to the music of Puccini. “Dense and challenging in its detail and analysis, this work is an important addition to the growing corpus of Puccini studies. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Book Polyglot Phrases

Download or read book Polyglot Phrases written by Lewis Nicholas Worthington and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing

Download or read book Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing written by Nathalie Hester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length study in English on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing enriches our understanding of an unusually fertile period for Italian contributions to the genre. The intrinsic qualities of this literature can now be grasped in terms of the larger question of cultural identity in Italy. For Hester, the specifically literary characteristics of Italian travel writing”including its humanism or Petrarchism”highlight the classic eminence throughout Europe of a prestigious tradition inherent to Italy, one compensating then for the peninsula's lack of a national political identity. Appeals to the cultural authority of that tradition represent a means of addressing and overcoming anxieties about the Italian subject's diasporic status during the "Golden Age" of European global colonial expansion. Self-funded travelers Francesco Carletti, Pietro Della Valle, Francesco Belli, Francesco Negri, and Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri are the major authors studied who journeyed through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and America.

Book Le avventure di Nicholas Nickleby

Download or read book Le avventure di Nicholas Nickleby written by Charles Dickens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aonia edizioni. Le avventure di Nicholas Nickleby è il terzo romanzo di Charles Dickens, pubblicato originariamente in capitoli sul settimanale edito da Chapman and Hall tra l'aprile del 1838 e l'ottobre del 1839. Il giovane Nicholas Nickleby si trova, in giovane età, a dover sostenere la sua famiglia, dopo la perdita del padre. La famiglia, trasferitasi nella caotica Londra del XIX secolo, cerca appoggio nella figura del fratello del defunto, Ralph Nickleby, che si rivelerà ben presto nella sua natura perfida ed egoistica. Fondendo drammaticità, spunti critici, satira e avventura, Dickens costruisce una trama ricca di fascino, con personaggi psicologicamente intensi e con ambientazioni ricche di particolari di quell'epoca ricca di contrasti che fu l'età vittoriana.

Book Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age

Download or read book Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age written by Joan Aruz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the research of internationally renowned scholars, Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age contributes significantly to our understanding of the epoch-making artistic and cultural exchanges that took place across the Near East and Mediterranean in the early first millennium B.C. This was the world of Odysseus, in which seafaring Phoenician merchants charted new nautical trade routes and established prosperous trading posts and colonies on the shores of three continents; of kings Midas and Croesus, legendary for their wealth; and of the Hebrew Bible, whose stories are brought vividly to life by archaeological discoveries. Objects drawn from collections in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and the United States, reproduced here in sumptuous detail, reflect the cultural encounters of diverse populations interacting through trade, travel, and migration as well as war and displacement. Together, they tell a compelling story of the origins and development of Western artistic traditions that trace their roots to the ancient Near East and across the Mediterranean world. Among the masterpieces brought together in this volume are stone reliefs that adorned the majestic palaces of ancient Assyria; expertly crafted Phonecian and Syrian bronzes and worked ivories that were stored in the treasuries of Assyria and deposited in tombs and sanctuaries in regions far to the west; and lavish personal adornments and other luxury goods, some imported and others inspired by Near Eastern craftsmanship. Accompanying texts by leading scholars position each object in cultural and historical context, weaving a narrative of crisis and conquest, worship and warfare, and epic and empire that spans both continents and millennia. Writing another chapter in the story begun in Art of the First Cities (2003) and Beyond Babylon (2008), Assyria to Iberia offers a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in an age of imperial and mercantile expansion in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterranean in the first millennium B.C.—the dawn of the Classical age.

Book Visible Spirit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Irving Lavin
  • Publisher : Pindar Press
  • Release : 2006-12-31
  • ISBN : 1915837073
  • Pages : 827 pages

Download or read book Visible Spirit written by Irving Lavin and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as the 1950s, Professor Irving Lavin was recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained production of seminal scholarly contributions have left their mark on an astonishingly wide range of -subjects and fields. Bringing these far-reaching publications together will not only provide a valuable resource to scholars and -students, but will also underscore fundamental themes in the history of art - historicism, the art of commemoration, the relationship between style and meaning, the -intelligence of artists - themes that define the role of the visual arts in human communication. Irving Lavin is best known for his array of fundamental publications on the Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). These include new discoveries and studies on the master's prodigious childhood, his architecture and -portraiture, his invention of caricature, his depictions of religious faith and political leadership, his work in the -theatre, his attitude toward death and the role of the artist in the creation of a modern sense of social responsibility. All of Professor Lavin's papers on Bernini are here brought together in three volumes. The studies have been reset and in many cases up-dated, and there is a comprehensive index.

Book A Poetry Precise and Free

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  • Author : Nicholas R. Jones
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2018-03-08
  • ISBN : 0472123610
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book A Poetry Precise and Free written by Nicholas R. Jones and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Poetry Precise and Free collects 150 lyric poems by the Renaissance Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini in new translations, accompanied by the Italian originals and commentary that will enlighten and engage both scholars and general readers. Guarini’s madrigals provide insight into northern Italian court culture of the late Renaissance, when poetry and music were enjoyed as companion arts. Hundreds of composers of Guarini’s day set his lyric poems to music. Primarily known today in their vocal settings, most famously those of Claudio Monteverdi, the poems merit appreciation in their own right. This volume is organized into ten sections, grouping the madrigals around themes such as the anguish of passion, the asymmetry of desire, the incursions of jealousy, and the possibility of mutual bliss. Nicholas R. Jones renders Guarini’s poetry into accessible contemporary English verse that nevertheless stays true to the substance and form of the original texts, reflecting their roots in the Petrarchan poetic tradition and displaying the emotion and musicality that made these lyrics so popular from the start. A substantive introduction provides cultural context for the madrigals and their musical settings; brief commentaries follow each translation to illuminate aspects of poetic and rhetorical craft. An extensive appendix lists the madrigal compositions that set these lyrics for vocal performance. The book fills a major gap in the scholarship on Guarini’s literary legacy. It will appeal to scholars of literature, Renaissance studies, and musicology, early-music performers, and general readers interested in poetry and classical music.

Book CAPITALISMO E RISCHI SOCIO AMBIENTALI QUALI PROSPETTIVE

Download or read book CAPITALISMO E RISCHI SOCIO AMBIENTALI QUALI PROSPETTIVE written by CLAUDIO PIRILLO and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il libro esamina gli aspetti del globalismo finanziario, le finalità di esso e come si è determinato il processo capitalista moderno; i mutamenti socio-ambientali, i cambiamenti e la perdita della biosfera, la necessità della ricerca di fonti di energia alternativa e la bioeconomia. Effetto serra, inquinamento, emissioni di CO2, quali gli effetti dei moderni sistemi di produzione capitalista. Le guerre di mercato, la truffa dell'euro, le aggressioni militari per l'accaparramento delle risorse energetiche e delle riserve dei semi delle specie fitoalimentari. Le conseguenze di tali mutamenti ed il concetto di rischio.

Book Dumitru Staniloae   s Trinitarian Ecclesiology

Download or read book Dumitru Staniloae s Trinitarian Ecclesiology written by Viorel Coman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumitru Stăniloae is one of the most important but routinely neglected twentieth-century Orthodox theologians. Viorel Coman explores the ecumenical relevance of Stăniloae’s reflections on the interplay between the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the church in the context of the debates on the ecclesiological ramifications of the filioque. Coman combines a historical and theological analysis of Stăniloae’s approach to the filioque, Trinity, and church. The historical analysis shows the changes that have taken place over time in Stăniloae’s approach to the issue of the filioque and the doctrine of the church. The theological analysis emphasizes the ecumenical contribution of the Romanian thinker to the fields of Trinitarian theology and ecclesiology. Even though this book centers primarily around Stăniloae’s vision on the link between the doctrine of the Trinity and the Church, it places his theological reflections in a solid dialogue with other Eastern (Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, and John Zizioulas) and Western theologians (Karl Barth, Yves Congar, Karl Rahner, and Walter Kasper).